ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,352, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Trading Technologies International Inc. (Chicago).

"Determining an availability of a data center" was invented by Frederick J. Anguiano (Chicago), Praveen Kannan (Naperville, Ill.) and Jeffrey S. Richards (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining an availability of a data center, DC, to one or more computing entities external to the DC are described. A DC may, for example, operate one or more applications which are controllable by one or more external computing entities. Disclosed techniques include determining a first status of a first set of one or more communi...